The International Issues Discussion (IID) series at Toronto Metropolitan University is proud to present its fifth and final talk of the Winter 2025 series:“How did ‘The End of History’ Come to an End? Russia’s War in Ukraine and Totalitarianism in a Postmodern Key”. 

Our guest will be Dr. Marci Shore, professor of history at Yale University. She will begin teaching at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy in fall 2025 as Chair in European Intellectual History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies.Her research focuses on the intellectual history of twentieth and twenty-first century Central and Eastern Europe. Amongst her many publications are The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968. In 2018, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her current book project, a history of phenomenology in East-Central Europe, tentatively titled “In Pursuit of Certainty Lost: Central European Encounters on the Way to Truth.” She is a regular visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. She co-curated a Public Seminar/Eurozine forum “On the Uses and Disadvantages of Historical Comparisons for Life” (https://publicseminar.org/essays/the-last-time-i-saw-them-new-democracy-seminar-forum/. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2001, and taught at Indiana University before coming to Yale. 

Her talk will be held in-person on Wednesday, April 9th between 6:30 and 8:30 pm in ENG 103 (the Vari Engineering Building, 245 Church Street, Toronto).

Attendance is free and everyone is welcome.  

Founded in 2005, the IID is a non-partisan, student-led forum designed to engage all members of the TMU community on major events and issues in contemporary global affairs through reasoned, objective, and scholarly discourse. For further details about the IID and our series please see http://iid.kislenko.com  or contact the IID student leaders at iidseries@gmail.com